p. 20 | Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 11. (3/16/1911)

Earlier text: Kolo Mission, South Africa

A Word to Some Sabbath-Schools

By G. B. THOMPSON

At the last session of the General Conference, held in 1909, the following resolution concerning the Sabbath-school donations was passed:—

“Whereas, Our Sabbath-schools need the blessed inspiration of a real burden for mission fields, while opportunities to spread the message in foreign lands are multiplying faster than their means; therefore,— “We recommend, That our Sabbath-schools give all their donations to missions, providing for their expenses in some other way.”

This recommendation of the General Conference has been followed by similar recommendations in all the union and local conferences. There is no exception, so far as we know. In addition to this, all the officers and leading workers in the union and local conferences are in favor of the plan, and are doing all in their power to see that the recommendation is carried out in their territory. Every Sabbath-school secretary, so far as we know, heartily favors the plan, and is working faithfully and untiringly to have the recommendation carried into effect.

As a result of this we have over fifty local conferences in this country giving all their donations to missions, and these have been placed on the Sabbath-school “Honor Roll.” Six union conferences are on the union conference “Honor Roll.”

That all the conferences are not on the “Honor Roll,” is not the fault of the conference officers. The principal reason why they are not is because local schools here and there fail to pay heed to the resolutions that have been passed. Is your school one of these? If so, why?

In every recommendation passed by the General or local conferences, each church is left free to decide whether it will follow the suggestion, be in harmony with the organized work, or adopt some plan of its own, or have no plan. There is no desire on the part of any conference to force any church or individual to follow a plan which has been proposed. Having sent out the best plan it knows how to formulate, after mature and prayerful consideration, it is for the church to say whether or not it will push the matter. The responsibility is left with the members. It is the same in the matter of giving all the donations to missions. The members of each school must decide whether they will follow the recommendation of the organized work, or take the responsibility of setting it aside.

But let me kindly ask, Is it wise to deliberately refuse to follow the plan, and, as has been done in a few instances, work against the plan? Why should a local Sabbath-school refuse to follow a recommendation which has been passed by the General, union, and local conferences? Are the opinions and ideas of a local church or Sabbath-school on methods of work, and church government to be considered of greater value than the plans of the whole body? Should we not be slow to refuse to follow recommendations which come down to us from the highest body of counsel we have among us, because the plans do not suit our ideas? Is this true organization? Suppose all plans were treated in this way, would it not entirely destroy organization, and substitute general chaos instead?

We would like our schools that are not giving all their donations to missions to think seriously of this. Why not follow the recommendation which has been passed by the General Conference? The moment this is done, all our Sabbath-schools will be giving all their donations to missions. The most of our Sabbath-schools, not only in the United States and Canada, but in all the world, are doing this. Why should your school be an exception? Why should other schools follow the organized plan, and your school not follow it? Let Sabbath-school officers think seriously of this. In unity there is strength, and this is true here as well as in other things. We would be glad to see a clear record in the matter of giving all to missions in every school. This will come sooner or later; why not begin now? Do you want your school to be the last one to fall into line?

The crying needs of the great mission problem before us call for increased Sabbath-school donations. One way we can increase the amount is by turning all our donations into the mission treasury, as recommended by our entire organization, General, union, and local. I earnestly appeal to schools that have not seen their way clear to do this in the past to prayerfully consider the matter. Why not follow the recommendation of the organization, and thus bring unity into the work on this point?

G. B. THOMPSON,

Secretary General Conference Sabbath-School Department.

Java

By R. W. MUNSON

ALL the signs warn us that the end is very near. Our day of opportunity is nearly done. The harvest is great, but where are the reapers? Who will gather in the sheaves?

If the thirty-two million inhabitants of Java were to march past us, five abreast, day and night, beginning Oct. 1, 1910, the last day of February, 1911, would pass before the last man had gone by. Let them march in single file during daylight only, and March 1, 1915, would arrive before the last one had passed. During those fifty months, 3,200,000 births and 2,200,000 deaths would have taken place. Every year at least half a million are dying without Christ. Think of 43,800 funerals every month, 1,400 every day, 60 every hour, one every minute, in Java.

The people here are very poor. Many toil for fifteen shillings a month, or sixpence a day, and keep a family. Millions exist, thousands are destitute, hundreds starve. Cholera kills its thousands, superstition its tens of thousands. Like a mountain, superstition stands in the way of good sanitation, sane medical treatment, and real advancement.

The people say the government wants human heads to lay under the foundations of new bridges and public buildings, and the inspectors, with the convicts employed to do the work, are employed in this task of garnering human heads, infants as well as adults. No reasoning, no argument, avails to change their opinion. Nothing will convince them. Mohammedan hajis and priests work on the ignorance, stupidity, and superstition of the people to the advantage of Islam. Riots and bloodshed often result, for the government must maintain order, even at the cost of human life.

Do you not pity the poor people of Java? Would you like to exchange places with them? Their spiritual as far exceeds their mental darkness as their moral destitution exceeds their temporal.

They are dying without God, without Christ, without hope.

Who will deny himself that Christ, in the person of these poor people, may be spiritually fed and clothed? Christ died for them; what have you done for them? For the love of Christ and in his dear name we plead with you to give and pray for Java. R. W. MUNSON.

HARRY S. WEAVER

By Harry S. Weaver

Maryland

BALTIMORE.—We have taken up work in Baltimore in the form of a Sunday-school and gospel mission at 1104 Patterson Avenue. We began by going out in the streets and lanes near the hall, and canvassing for pupils for the school. Last Sunday we had sixteen children present.

We have a kindergarten department, with a table and small chairs, where a faithful teacher instructs the little ones. The larger children are divided into three or four classes. We also have a senior class to accommodate the parents of the children if they will come. Thus you see we have made a beginning in dealing our bread to the hungry, and bringing the poor that are cast out to our house. We ask an interest in the prayers of all for this blessed work.

HARRY S. WEAVER

Texas Missionary Volunteer Convention

By G. F. Watson

This meeting was held at Keene, Tex., February 23-28. From the very first, yes, even before the date of the meeting, many earnest souls began to pray that God would visit us by his good Spirit, to awaken those who believe and to convert the unbelieving. Our prayers were answered in a remarkable manner. What a pity it is that we pray so little. Several of the conference presidents in this union were present, and these, with other ministers and with the teachers in the school, met daily for special prayer. This not only brought us nearer to God, but we are sure that God heard and answered in behalf of others.

Prof. C. Sorenson will give a detailed account of the convention; but I wish to thank the General Conference Department of Missionary Volunteers for the good help sent us. We regret that Prof. H. R. Salisbury could not be with us, but God greatly blessed the labors of Elder Meade MacGuire and Sister Matilda Erickson.

G. F. Watson.

The Division of the California Conference

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

The fortieth annual session of the California-Nevada Conference was held February 9-19, in Fresno, Cal. It was one of the largest local conferences I have ever known among Seventh-day Adventists. Over two hundred delegates were seated.

Owing to the size of the California Conference, it was thought best to divide it into three conferences, that more thorough work might be done; but notwithstanding the fact that there were ninety-three churches and 5,206 Sabbath-keepers in the conference, a large proportion of the brethren and sisters did not wish to divide. They loved the associations, and had always looked forward to the annual gatherings with great pleasure; and they could not bear the thought of a separation of these ties which had been dear to them for many years. Some of the leaders felt that the prosperity and advancement of the work would be hindered if the conference was not divided. We all felt that if the Lord did not make the people see the need of division, it would be folly to attempt it.

The opening meeting was held Thursday evening, February 9. Friday morning the conference was organized, the delegates were seated, and the committees appointed, and no other business was brought before the conference. The entire time during the first two days was spent in seeking the Lord. Some who knew the large amount of business to be attended to became a little nervous for fear we would not have time enough to attend to the business; but we felt the most important business was to seek the Lord, and individually get a living connection with him.

Sunday morning a map of the proposed divisions, with a statement of the area, number of churches, membership, and tithe of each of the proposed divisions, was placed in the hands of every person in the conference. After giving two days for all to carefully consider the matter, the conference voted to divide into three divisions, as follows: (1) The Central California Conference, comprising the southern part of the San Joaquin Valley and Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties on the coast; (2) the North California-Nevada Conference, composed of the counties east of the Cascade Mountains, Merced and Mariposa counties being the limit on the south, this conference also including the northern half of Nevada; (3) the California Conference, including all the counties bordering on San Francisco Bay, and west of the Cascade Mountains and north of San Francisco Bay. The last-named conference is the strongest, numerically and financially, of the three, as the working of the large seaport cities will always be an expensive work, and will require more funds than are required to work inland territory.

The southern half of Nevada and Mono and Inyo counties of California were given to the Southern California Conference. There was only one small church of fourteen members in all this territory. It will require men and means to work it. The Southern California Conference is a strong conference. It needs more territory, and owing to geographical conditions, can reach this field much more easily than the other conferences. The northern part of Santa Barbara County was also given to the Southern California Conference.

The election of officers went through with the same sweet spirit. Every one present felt that the Lord was surely with us. The remark was frequently heard, "We never attended a conference where the Lord’s presence was more manifestly felt." Those who in the past had been in the habit of contesting all points (there are some such in most conferences), were in perfect harmony with each move. We all felt that we had learned the lesson that the larger the amount of business, the larger the amount of time that should be spent in seeking the Lord. In taking two days as a conference to seek the Lord, we had gained a great victory.

Elder J. H. Behrens, of California, was chosen president of the Central California Conference; Elder C. L. Taggart, of California, was elected president of the North California-Nevada Conference; and Elder E. W. Farnsworth, president of the California Conference.

Letters had previously been sent to be read in every church, stating that the division of the conference would be considered at this meeting, and it was interesting to see the class of delegates present. Some of our large churches, which were entitled to twelve or fifteen delegates, were represented almost wholly by business men, who made a sacrifice to attend. This showed that they regarded the interests of God’s cause of more value than their own. From the beginning to the close of the conference there was not a word of contention, nor a discordant note.

The Sustentation Fund was presented, and all gladly voted to give five per cent of their tithe to the support of this fund. The foreign missionary work was also presented, and, although they were starting out into untried fields, and hardly knew the expenses they would meet in their new conference work, yet they very cheerfully voted to give fifteen per cent of their tithe for the support of the foreign missionary work.

We feel thankful to the Lord for the prosperity that has attended the California Conference in the past, and earnestly pray that the prospering hand of the Lord will ever be over the three new California conferences.

S. N. HASKELL.

Field Notes

E. E. SMITH reports nine new Sabbath-keepers at Baker, Ore.

THREE persons have begun the observance of the Sabbath at Globe, Ariz.

EIGHT colored persons have taken a stand for the truth at Columbia, S. C.

SIX persons were recently baptized near Lisco, Neb., and at Broadwater, five.

BROTHER M. B. BUTTERFIELD reports two persons obeying the truth at Kezar Falls, Maine.

ELDER H. W. COTTRELL baptized three persons on a recent Sabbath at the Oakland, Cal., church.

Malamulo Mission

By J. C. Rogers

WITH the coming of Brother Ellingworth, on November 6, our work in Nyasaland gains in working strength what we have needed for a long time. We shall now be able to undertake some of the work which has before been neglected. In this country the village work and out-schools are, or should be, the strongest features of our work. Here we secure the confidence and interest of the people, especially of the children, who are to become our members. Very few old people change from their ancient habits and customs. In the youth lies our hope of teaching the message to the multitudes.

Mrs. Rogers has already planned to go personally into a group of villages about twenty miles away and open an out-school. She is greatly interested in this out-school work, and has spent much time at it intermittently for over two years. With our little mission tent she can be somewhat comfortable, notwithstanding the many deprivations. We feel burdened to get the truth before the people in view of the rapid increase of the plague of sleeping sickness. In the past year Europeans as well as natives have been stricken with it. One notable case of a minister visiting the Dutch Reformed Mission, who was suddenly found to be suffering from this dread disease, is now causing much stir here. We have heard of eleven other cases of the disease, and of deaths having occurred frequently during the last eighteen months.

Prosperity is attending the work of God in Nyasaland. All the workers are well, and for this we are very thankful. By forethought and care, Brother Ellingworth has reached us with strength to enter into the work at once. Heartily taking hold to share the responsibilities and cares of the mission, his help is being gratefully appreciated. We now hope to proceed with translating and printing reading-books, hymn-books, and tracts, a work too long neglected.

The number of our native teachers and pupils is at present larger than ever before — over fifty teachers and twenty-five schools.

Nothing has done me more good for a long time than my visit to two new schools among the real Nyanza people. Looking into the eager faces of a hundred children crowded into their grass schoolhouse, while teaching them to sing “Jesus Loves Me,” for the first time, is about as inspiring an event as one can take part in. These two schools have an enrolment of over two hundred thirty. They are ten miles apart,—one at the foot of the mountains, and the other right up among them. I walked from one school to the other one evening, a heavy shower falling on the journey. Next day I walked eighteen miles to the mission station, with no worse results than the usual weariness.

J. C. ROGERS.

Mandarin Union Training School, China

By H. W. Miller

THE name of this school is doubtless new to most of our people at home, so we will offer a word of explanation. The word Mandarin is incorporated into the name of the school to designate the language in which its work is conducted, and the territory from which it expects to draw its students. Three hundred eighty-five millions of people, from fifteen provinces of China, besides Manchuria, speak the Mandarin language. While there are some changes in different parts of the Mandarin-speaking territory in the pronunciation of the language, they are not so marked but that it is possible for one having a command of the Mandarin of any part to make himself quite well understood wherever he may go.

Calling this school a Mandarin school will serve to differentiate it from schools in the southeastern provinces, where the spoken language is decidedly different, such as the Shanghai dialect, spoken by some twenty millions, also the dialects of Amoy and Canton.

As the China Union Mission at present comprises eight mission fields, five of which and part of another are in Mandarin territory, this school, drawing its students from six of these mission fields, is called the Mandarin Training School.

It is the usual plan, in connection with mission stations in Mandarin, China, to have boarding- and day-schools for boys and girls; but this school just established has for its object the training of men and women to go forth as evangelists and colporteurs, also to give a medical training to those qualified.

We believe that the message must be carried to the towns and villages of China through the efforts of our Chinese brethren and sisters. All the training that our colporteurs and evangelists have had in the past is what they have received through Bible studies given by the workers at the mission stations, and some of these brethren are doing valiant service; but the work of training them has been a heavy strain on those in charge of the stations, whose time was more than occupied by the routine work, and answering the questions of inquirers. While this method of training workers answered for a time, it had its drawbacks, among which might be mentioned a lack of uniformity in the subject-matter presented and in the methods of presenting it. There was also the almost certain impossibility of regularity, as other duties were sure to press in at the time of the study hour.

As the message is growing, and believers have increased, it was felt that our constituency was sufficiently large for the establishment of a union training-school in Mandarin-speaking territory.

At a meeting of the China Union Mission Committee held in Mokanshan in August, 1910, action was taken to the effect that a union mission training-school be temporarily located at Cheo Chia K'o, Honan, in connection with the mission there, until a permanent and suitable location could be secured in North China.

In harmony with this action, word was sent to the several mission stations announcing the school, and on October 7 about twenty men and women gathered here from the field to form the nucleus of the first central training-school for workers.

Some of these were men who had been working as evangelists, but whose training was not considered sufficient for the work they were doing; some were Bible women; others were colporteurs; still others were those who had lately accepted the message, and who desired to obtain a knowledge of the truth and fit themselves for work. In addition to these were the children of believers, who were sufficiently advanced in their studies to enter the classes of the advanced school.

The announcement of the school being somewhat late, quite a number were enrolled after the first week who could not reach here by the date set for the opening. This gives us a total enrolment of thirty-two at this time of writing.

In addition to these, there are twenty-one boys and girls in the station, or boarding-school; these come under the rules of the training-school, attending chapel exercises and boarding in a common dining-room, thus giving us a total of fifty-three in training here at present.

Associated in giving instruction and looking after the work of the school are Elder O. A. Hall, Miss Pauline Schilberg, Mr. Henry Lam, and three native teachers.

To those acquainted with the opportunities for an education offered by China's educational system, or lack of system, of the past, the perplexities and difficulties connected with the establishment of a training-school will be apparent. However, the difficulties and the sad lack of education among them only emphasize the more the importance of such a Christian training-school in China. If we ever have successful leaders among the Chinese Christians, they must be trained, and receive a thorough knowledge of the message and its organization. The students in the school range in age from seven years to sixty-one, and their capabilities for learning vary about as widely as their ages. Some who are above forty and fifty years of age have never been to school before, although they have considerable knowledge of the Scriptures and are quite capable. Others have been to school, but have received only a memory drill, and so as far as real knowledge goes, they are not in advance of those who have not gone to school, except that they can read more characters. Then there are about twenty young people who have had a training in our boarding-schools and in other Christian schools; these are able to do high-school work, and make good progress in their studies. An effort has been made to classify the students, so as to give them work that they can understand and that will be of the most value to them; this has at times been quite a problem with our limited number of teachers. We feel that the Lord has helped us in arranging their course, and that his blessing is upon the school.

The lack of suitable buildings and facilities for teaching has rendered discipline difficult, and has made it almost impossible for us to bring the standard to that which we desire to maintain. It has been necessary to place from six to ten students in a room, with a thatched roof and dirt floor, and having for furniture one small table in the center. This crowded condition, with each one studying in an audible tone, after the Chinese custom, has added to the confusion. I fear that if our students at home had to go to school under such conditions, their lessons would not be very well prepared from day to day. It is surprising to us to see how, under these conditions, the students do so well in their studies, and that we have so little difficulty in discipline. One reason is that they are a patient people, and have much respect for their teachers; but above all, they have an intense desire to learn and a sincere love for the truth, and are anxious to fit themselves to herald it to their countrymen.

The majority of the students have nothing to pay toward their support, so we furnish them with four hours' work a day. Some sell literature in the city; others make Chinese pens; some help in the kitchen; some do mason work, repairing the buildings; miscellaneous jobs around the mission compound are assigned to others. A number of the girls in Miss Schilberg's school do embroidery, and this gives promise of being a source of some income. These girls make mottoes that can be sent through the mail by post at little expense, and which can be procured by addressing the school.

The home training, which requires the students to be punctual to their classes, as well as to sit down and eat together as a family, is by no means of small importance to a people that have never

been used to any order or system in their homes.

From the results so far apparent, we feel encouraged, believing that the blessing of God has been and is resting upon the school.

H. W. MILLER.

Christian Education

By H. R. Salisbury

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference

H. R. SALISBURY - - - - Secretary

From the Clinton (Mo.) Seminary

Of his recent visit to the new German Seminary at Clinton, Mo., Brother H. H. Hall writes as follows:—

“Brother Cochran and I went to Clinton, January 30, and I gave a stereopticon talk there that night; but what occurred the next morning will perhaps be of more interest to you. The students were called together at nine o’clock, it being a holiday. Brother Cochran spoke of the great need among the Germans in Missouri, and especially in the St. Louis Mission Field. He also pointed out the opportunities for magazine work. I followed with a brief statement of our their plans for canvassers’ bands in the schools, and the facilities that we have to give those who expect to enter the field this year. Professor Grauer gave a short talk, and asked those to arise who wished to take the band work, and go into the field this season. To our surprise, thirty-nine arose at once. Two young women who were not present gave us their names later. It was one of the finest looking groups of young people I have ever seen in a canvassing class. Before the meeting closed, Professor Grauer told them that he would like to see our next stereopticon lecture give not only the seminary (a slide for which I had presented the night before), but their first canvassing class as well. All those, therefore, who were actually going into the field, he invited to the front of the building, where a photograph was taken of them. We afterward selected leaders for the canvassers’ bands, and had a good meeting with them, outlining the band work in detail. I believe we may expect great things from the Clinton Seminary in the book business.”

Cochabamba, Bolivia

By Otto H. Shultz

OUR work is making headway in this city. The Spanish book, “Home and Health,” makes friends for us among the Catholics, and opens the way for doctrinal books. Several persons have already asked if I did not have other books for sale. One man has bought several books.

In one town I sold six copies of “Home and Health” in two hours, and took seventeen orders, which I delivered the next day. In one house I found a priest waiting to see me. The man of the house, who had ordered the book, said he would not take it until it had been examined by the priest, so I approached the priest, and gave him a canvass, after which he said it was all right. The gentleman who had ordered the book then took it, and I sold another in the same house.

The next morning I went to the early morning meeting in the church to hear what the priest would say, but his talk was in the Kechua language. (This was a priest to whom I had sold some tracts the day before.) Occasionally, I could hear the words, “Luther,” “evangelist,” “Protestant,” etc. As he seemed to be talking to the Indians about me, I hurried out and began to sell books. I sold one copy of “Christ Our Saviour,” one of “Home and Health,” five of Life and Health, and one of “Best Stories” during the time the priest was talking to his flock in the church. An hour later I left that place in the mail-coach. The Lord gives the necessary courage and strength. A procession passed while I was there, but I succeeded in getting into a house until it had gone by.

At the next station, I sold seven copies of Life and Health, Spanish, but could not do more. The priest was standing in the park watching me. People wanted to buy the books, but he did not allow it. They would say to me, “Our father [the priest] will not let us buy.” I approached him, telling him that the priests in Cochabamba had bought books from me, but he would neither speak to nor look at me. I was the only Protestant in town, so I soon left, as it would be dangerous to remain there overnight, and no one would want to give me a shelter. Here, also, I saw a procession coming, and I had to get out of its way, as all are expected to kneel.

In one house the people wished to buy, but could not do so because they had no permission from the priests. I told them that I sold books just the same, permission or no permission. I also told them that the priest was only a man like me, and that no one is holy except God. They were very much astonished to hear such blasphemy.

My daily experiences are giving me strength for the work. I find great joy and happiness in scattering the printed page. May the seed sown bring forth fruit to the glory of God.

OTTO H. SHULTZ.

A Cause for Rejoicing

By K. C. R.

WE are confident that every Seventh-day Adventist will rejoice to know that the Johnston Sunday bill and all other religious measures that were pending in Congress died March 4, with the close of the Sixty-first Congress. This session came nearer to enacting a Sunday law than any previous session. At different times during the past two years, it has seemed to us that nothing could prevent the passage of one or more of these measures; but at such periods, when our work seemed most critical, we have, in a most special way, sought the Lord; and as a result these measures have failed to become law, and finally died with the close of the Sixty-first Congress.

It must be evident to those acquainted with the determined and persistent efforts exerted by the promoters of religious legislation, to secure the passage of the Johnston Sunday bill and similar measures, that the failure of these bills to become law was not simply a matter of chance, but rather the result of the direct influence of God's restraining power.

In view of the signal victory that the Lord has again given, how should we relate ourselves to the situation? Shall we lay down the weapons of our warfare, and retire from the conflict? or shall we regard this time of respite as another opportunity granted us in which to warn the honest in heart of the coming crisis?

It is evident from statements which are being made by prominent advocates of Sunday legislation in reference to a stricter observance of Sunday in the District of Columbia, that they purpose to continue their struggle for a Sunday law for the District. The Washington Post of March 6 contains the following statement from Dr. Wallace Radcliffe, chairman of the Sunday Observance Committee of the District of Columbia:—

“It is the general feeling among religious people of all classes that unless something is speedily done about the custom [of entertainments on Sunday], the religious life of the capital city may be threatened, and that of the nation become

undermined. . . . Another reason why Sunday is observed so little in Washington is that the laws here are not strict enough. We have been trying to get Congress to pass a bill for three years, which would prohibit barbers and others from working on Sunday, but so far we have been unsuccessful.”

The foregoing statements from an influential source are sufficient evidence that efforts to secure a District Sunday law will not cease. Without doubt those who favor such religious enactments are laying deeper plans than ever for the accomplishment of their purposes. There is no doubt that one or more Sunday bills will be introduced into the extra session of Congress, which will convene Tuesday, April 4. Let us not slacken our zeal, but, instead, redouble our energies in this battle for truth and right.

K. C. R.

The Missionary and Publishing Work

Notes, Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature

Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference

E. R. PALMER Secretary N. Z. TOWN Assistant Secretary A. J. S. BOURDEAU Missionary Secretary

Colima, Mexico

By J. E. Frazee

THIS is my first winter in Mexico, and it is altogether the warmest winter I have ever enjoyed. I have spent winters near the Canada line, when the mercury went down to sixty below zero, and froze in the thermometer, but never before have I passed a winter when I could sit in my room in January, with doors and windows open, and read and write in perfect comfort.

My stay here has been a pleasant one. The people are kind and polite, and many of them thank me for selling them such a good book. Three weeks ago I delivered a book to the governor. This week I met his daughter at a Catholic college. She was very enthusiastic in praise of the book, and ordered another, which I delivered the next day. The governor, judge, and other prominent men seem to be interested in the number of books sold here. It seems as if I obtained, with the Lord's help, orders from nearly all the best citizens of this city. Twice men stopped me on the street to give an order. The people of Mexico are so cordial that I really enjoy the book work here.

J. E. FRAZEE.

H. R. S

By H. R. S.

When we remember that it was only a decade ago that our missionaries first entered China, and that now the work has grown and increased until we have a union training-school for the native workers, we should thank God for the success which has attended the work there. May the Lord greatly bless this school, that from it may come forth an army of workers who will take the glad message of a soon-coming Saviour to the millions of their own people.

H. R. S

Christian Liberty

By K. C. Russell; C. M. Snow

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience

Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau

K. C. RUSSELL . . . . Secretary

C. M. SNOW . . . . Corresponding Secretary

Sanitarium Relief Campaign

By L. A. Hansen

In the Ohio Conference

It was my privilege recently to spend a little time with some of the churches in the Ohio Conference in the interest of the “Ministry of Healing” campaign. The time of my stay was quite limited, but the willing and full co-operation of others helped me to make the most of the time spent. The president, Elder H. H. Burkholder, gave prompt attention and careful thought in arranging for the work.

At Columbus, a meeting was held on Monday night. Some of the members came six miles or more. Elder B. G. Wilkinson had met with this church the previous Sabbath, and presented the campaign work, securing a substantial order for books. Under the leadership of Elder J. F. Olmstead, and with the aid of other workers, this church is doing active missionary work. Different ones are enjoying good experiences in the sale of “Ministry of Healing.” Dr. G. T. Harding is placing the book in the hands of his patients, with favorable results.

On Tuesday night the Springfield church was visited. Elder C. T. Redfield has only recently taken charge of the work at this place. He appreciated the meeting, and accompanied me to the next two places of meeting. The church showed a deep interest in the work presented, and may be depended upon for active service. A fair attendance was given a Bible study the next day.

At Dayton we held a meeting on Wednesday night, with a fair attendance. Elder F. M. Fairchild is in charge of the work here. Under his direction that church will doubtless do its full share.

On Thursday night, at Hamilton, a small but appreciative audience was present. A number living in the country could not attend. Good work is already being done at this place in the sale of “Ministry of Healing.” The elder, George A. Keppler, reported an experience he had had a day or two before, when he sold six copies of the book in seven interviews, and one of these books made two more sales for him the next day. Brother A. R. Hasemeier conducts treatment-rooms here, and is thus able to place many copies of the book. He is librarian of the church, and gives time and earnest thought to planning for, and helping other members to assist in, this effort.

At Mount Vernon an introductory talk was given Friday night to a good-sized audience. Sabbath forenoon, at the close of the talk on the sanitarium work, Elder J. E. Shultz presented the call for orders for books. After a start had been made, and the number of responses and the size of orders seemed to lessen, there was an evident working of a good spirit, as different ones began to give larger orders than were asked for, and others enlarged former pledges. Over two hundred books were taken.

After a meeting with the young people in the afternoon, and another with the sanitarium family in the evening, we left for Newark, reaching there in time for a night meeting. Elder Wilkinson had also met with this church the previous Sabbath afternoon, and the work was well under way. Good interest was shown, and hearty expressions of co-operation were given. Elder J. J. Marietta and Dr. W. J. Vernon accompanied me to this place.

Sunday forenoon the Marion church was visited, in company with Dr. Vernon. This company had pledged itself for a previous quota for one year. There were encouraging reports from those who had made even the least effort. The company took new courage, and the work will be carried forward. Dr. Maud L. Bull is doing good work as a missionary leader.

The Ohio Conference has been working in the campaign, and reports encouraging progress. Various workers are given charge of different districts, and give the campaign-work attention with their other duties. Besides this, Elder Marietta will soon make the campaign his special charge throughout the State. The interest shown by the president, the workers, and the members in this large conference bids fair to be a great help in the effort now being made in the Columbia Union Conference.

L. A. HANSEN.

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